Michigan State head basketball coach Tom Izzo reacted in many different ways in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Friday, March 29, 2013. Michigan State lost the game to Duke , 71-61.J. Scott Park | MLive.com

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is in favor of a reduced shot clock for men's college basketball and said coaches discussed that idea during their meetings at the Final Four earlier this month, he told WWLS The Sports Animal on Monday.

"I would like to see a change," Izzo told the station before receiving the Wayman Tisdale Humanitarian Award in Oklahoma City. "One of the
guys I have great respect for -- Johnny Dawkins, who is at Stanford -- and we
were in our meetings the other day, and he said, 'We have the slowest game in
the world.'

"The international is less. The pro is less. The women's is less. And here we are with 35 (seconds)."

The shot clock in men's basketball was reduced to 35 seconds beginning in the 1993-94 season, and that is different from the 24-second clock in the NBA and FIBA. NCAA women's basketball operates under a 30-second clock.

The NCAA introduced a 45-second clock in the 1985-86 season in an effort to stop stall tactics. The 35-second clock continues to allow teams to use ball control, but Izzo indicated some support exists for another change in the shot clock.

"I think it was talked about at our meetings in Atlanta," said Izzo, who served on the National Association of Basketball Coaches' board of directors this season. "It
was just talked about. You know the bureaucracy of committees and what it's got
to do, but I think there is getting a growing run at maybe doing that, and I think
more coaches are in favor of it."